Calum Matheson

Co-Director of Research and Consulting Principal

Communication Professor and Director, William Pitt Debate Union, University of Pittsburgh Calum Matheson is an author, professor and communication coach with more than a decade of experience in communication training. He holds a professorship in public deliberation at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also the director of the William Pitt Debate Union. Prior to his time in Pittsburgh, Calum coached debate at a number of selective universities, including six years at Harvard, and has assisted several national championship winning teams. He also studied military history, including strategy and leadership. His academic work focuses on the uses and limits of persuasive language in public life. He is an active researcher in speech communication, and has published in a number of leading journals in the field of communication such as Rhetoric Society Quarterly,Argumentation and Advocacy,and Quarterly Journal of Speech. He has also written a forthcoming book on rhetoric from the University of Alabama Press. Calum has done communication consulting work for government officials, corporations, and a number of international non-governmental organizations focused on solving intractable problems by improving communication practices. Calum specializes in coaching effective public speaking, speechwriting, strategic messaging, and framing.